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Vidieo Performance issues
Posted by Mike Seltenright on December 16th, 2003


I am having a video performance issue with an Albatron 4280P, where at
2 second intervals my frame rate will drop to zero. When I first
bought the machine last May, it got 3Dmark 2001 scores in the 12,000
to 13,000 range. Now it get 3,500 to 4,500. I have updated the
drivers, scanned for viruses, and updated windows to no avail.

My CPU subsystem benchmarks are the same as when new. I am completely
baffled.

Mike

Posted by Noozer on December 16th, 2003



"Mike Seltenright" <m.seltenright@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:umkstvgubc49a5vf1euk3f792dc371alh8@4ax.com...
What mainboard? Did you install chipset updates as well?

What resolution and colour depth? 24bit colour (if you have the option) may
not be as accelerated as 16bit or 32bit.



Posted by kony on December 16th, 2003


On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:32:06 GMT, Mike Seltenright
<m.seltenright@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Always, regular 2 second intevals?

I'm wondering if a hardware-monitor type program or a bios setting for
hardware polling is causing this... seem to remember I had an Asus
board that when a bios setting was changed to update an iPanel
(bay-mounted display unit) it showed similar issue, though the pause
wasn't for long enough to drop the scores in 3Dmark THAT much, but
still significantly.


Dave


Posted by Mike Seltenright on December 17th, 2003


On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:08:32 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:


Yes 2 seconds, you can set your watch by it. I don't see anything when
running 2D apps. For the record, system specs are P4SDX motherboard,
P4 2.66 clocked at 3.04, 1 gig Kingston HyperX PC3000 RAM.

This all cropped up very suddenly i.e. last thursday night played
Battlefield 1942 everything was fine, got home form work Friday and
that's what it was doing.

I'll check the bios but I havn't modified anything in there in months.

Mike


Posted by Mike Seltenright on December 18th, 2003


On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:08:32 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:


Success!! Seems the problem was being caused by of all things... get
this.. DUmeter the network bandwidth monitoring program. I disabled
that, and everything is back to normal!

Mike

Posted by Mario on December 18th, 2003


Mike Seltenright <m.seltenright@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:<2c02uv8jc8lscqjiqlqojqhb5fnphp79q8@4ax.com>. ..
I've had a similar problem with dumeter, i'am using now onlineeye
without any problem. http://www.pmasoft.net


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